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bupdaddy's review against another edition
2.0
Valuable as an original source document, written by the man who tracked and eventually killed Billy the Kid. It's not much more than that, though.
amyreads719's review against another edition
4.0
I listened to this on Audio on a road trip today. My husband is a huge fan of Billy the Kids' story. It was an interesting book to listen to as many of the places Billy lived or was around I am familiar with.
jackb_93's review against another edition
Pretty dry and boring overall, with much recounting of names, places and dates without much in the way of real narrative flair. Almost entirely redeemed by the final chapter, which is a long steaming rant by Garrett in which he rages at the haters and pretends not to know the names of the various newspapers that have criticised him. Made even more unhinged by the revelation early in the chapter that his friends had already (rightly) tried (to no avail) to dissuade him from indulging in this kind of fevered score settling. Adopting a journalistic detachment throughout up to that point, his descent into being beet-red and mad by the end is one of the funniest conclusions of any factual book I've ever read
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